Senior Software Engineer

Workato

San Francisco, CASenior Software Engineer$140k–$220kPosted Jun 24, 2026

&lt;div class=&quot;content-intro&quot;&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Workato&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;p&gt;Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform. A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, Workato’s cloud-native architecture connects every application, data source, and process to power real-time orchestration at scale. With enterprise-grade security and continuous innovation at its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business. To learn more, visit &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.workato.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.workato.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why join us?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;. We are driven by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;innovation &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;and looking for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; team players &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;who want to actively build our company.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;But, we also believe in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;balancing productivity with self-care&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.workato.com/careers&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;along with a multitude of benefits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Also, feel free to check out why:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.businessinsider.com/47-enterprise-startups-to-bet-your-career-on-in-2020-2019-12&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Business Insider&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.forbes.com/cloud100/#a57477b5f941&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Forbes’ Cloud 100&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/fast500-winners.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Deloitte Tech Fast 500&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://qz.com/work/2053446/the-best-companies-for-working-from-home/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Quartz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Responsibilities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;We&#39;re looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to help build the distributed backend that powers our AI agent platform and the developer-facing products around it — the event-driven services, real-time integrations, and APIs that let agents reliably do real work. You&#39;ll be building the systems that need to stay correct and available on our path to 1M users over the next year. You will:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Build event-driven, horizontally-scalable backend services that process work reliably and correctly even when parts of the system fail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Build real-time surfaces and integrations — streaming connections, gateways, and CLIs — that hold up under load.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Integrate LLMs and agentic harnesses into production systems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Drive features end-to-end — from ideation and architecture through deployment, observability, and iteration.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Raise the engineering bar through clean, well-tested code, thoughtful reviews, and mentorship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Requirements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;5+ years shipping and operating production backend systems at scale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Strong proficiency in Python, and the judgment to write clean, well-tested, maintainable code under it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Deep distributed-systems fundamentals: you know how to keep systems correct and available under partial failure, backpressure, and load — and you design for it by default.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Hands-on experience with event-driven, streaming, or real-time systems (queues, pub/sub, long-lived connections).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Comfortable operating services in production on Kubernetes in the cloud — and instrumenting them with metrics, tracing, and dashboards so you can debug what you ship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Solid API and software-architecture instincts; you make and defend sensible trade-offs in ambiguity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;LLM/agentic and developer-facing product experience (MCP, RAG, APIs, SDKs, CLIs) a strong plus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Our stack: Python, FastAPI, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS. You don&#39;t need prior experience with all of it — we care that you can pick it up fast.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;High agency and ownership: You drive work end-to-end, from ambiguity to shipped and iterated, without waiting to be told.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;A reliability mindset: You design for failure, not just the happy path.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Product-minded:&amp;nbsp; You care about the users using what you build, not just the system behind it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;AI-native: You use modern AI tooling (e.g., Claude Code) in your daily workflow and stay at the cutting edge of what it can do.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;book antiqua&#39;, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Excellent written communication: We work async and write things down.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;